He has published a dozen books of poetry, including Conversations (1979), Signs of passage (1994) and I think of the poem (2000). He has collaborated in magazines such as Proceso, Nexos, Biblioteca de México, Artes de México and, of course, La Gaceta del FCE. He has translated and compiled volumes by authors such as John Berryman, Charles Simic, Delmore Schwartz, Charles Lamb and George Steiner (for Need of Music he prepared Need for Music). He has also served as a cultural attaché in the Mexican embassies to Peru, Chile and Ecuador.